The Witch (2015) FIRST TIME WATCH | Something wicked is here and they NEED to go!! 

there's old witch folklore that states that boiling the flesh of children grants witches the power of flight. the twins are missing at the end but the coven of witches are dancing around a boiling cauldron, and then start to fly. soooooooo uh yeah. them kids got cooked.

the black phillip asmr insert had me rolling 🤣

That "Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?" line has lived in my head rent free ever since I first saw this film years ago. Modern culture kind of whitewashed how insanely creepy the concept of witches must have been to people back in those times, and this movie PERFECTLY revives that old sense of dread we lost a while ago when it comes to witches.

This is one of my favorite movies ever made. If the people from this time period could make a horror movie, this is what they would have made. If you showed this to them, it would've scared them to death because it's exactly what they feared.

The best part about Robert Eggers' movies (besides the phenomenal acting and directing) is his use of dialects. For this movie and The Lighthouse he did research (by reading diaries, journals, and reports) on how people spoke during those time periods. It gives his films a legitimacy that few other films capture.

The family all gives tremendous performances...but, the brother's death scene is remarkable.

"you didn't warn us" we didn't know how...

I definately recommend the writer/director's follow up The Lighthouse. It's even more of a psychological/lovecraftian horror but its also intentionally hilarious. It's is another movie that requires subtitles since the characters speak in sailor talk as well as knowledge on Greek mythology

This film is a work of art and a masterclass in Horror filmmaking. I remembered seeing this the day it opened and it made me an A24 film fan ever since. Robert Eggers put some much working into getting every detail of that historical period right, even to its dialogue. I'm a huge expert on the Salem Witch Trials and this film really captured not just the authenticity, but the paranoia. Anya Taylor Joy and the rest of the cast really carried this movie. It's a masterpiece.

Such a great movie. Robert Eggers was able to weave in a lot of 17th century New England witch folklore and created a genius witch tale that's genuinely creepy.

Ah, yes…a feel-good family film. 🤗

This movie is so good, Anya-Taylor Joy is amazing.

The hair was def giving I’m just a teenage dirtbag 😭

the black philip asmr edit made my whole day

When I first saw this movie in the theater, I thought, "Eh, it's okay." It took me some time to appreciate it. Now it's one of my favorite movies. Kody, you have some really interesting takes on this movie. They make a lot of sense and gave me other things to think about that I hadn't considered before.

I've seen this movie so many times and this is the first time I noticed specifically that Caleb chokes up an apple after talking with Thomasin about how neither of them have seen one in a long time (I think it was more noticeable in this video because the moments were edited to be close together). I also love the conversation the father has with Caleb about the corn going bad (not in this video)- ergot is the fungus that grows on corn- implying that they might be ingesting ergot, which causes hallucinations and seizures. How much of their experiences were real (because a witch has been hexing them) and how much is hallucinogens, exacerbated by religious hysteria? I love this movie so much because I always find something new to contemplate. Watching along with you was wonderful!

Wait! That's Cody's hair!?!? I love it but I was not ready.

@21:41 when Sergio said ‘Spill’ I immediately thought of the meme of “daddy chill” 😂😂😅

Anya THEE Taylor-Joy, the actress you are!

calebs little actor ATE that. my favourite scene in the whole movie.

That rabbit is just showing up and mean mugging them😂😂😂😂😂😂. Trixx are for kids 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

I think the rabbit and that crow we see are other witches & they were all fuckin with that family. 🐐

Ugh Cody has the Neve Campbell Scream 2 hair I LOVE. ❤❤❤ Giving me all my 90s vibes. So the first kill (the baby) was unbaptized. The fat/blood of an unbaptized baby was an ingredient for a poultice that gives flight. So… she churned that baby into butter and spread it on herself

I’m so happy to see this reaction finally happen! May I recommend The Lighthouse (2019) also by Eggers. The one movie I reallyyyy want you guys to see is You’re next (2011) though!

React to the film: THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019), another very good horror from A24, intense and insane from start to finish, you'll like it.

This is such an intense and dark film, for sure. So well done. But, the… “Not the Proud Slut…” comment took me out. 😂😂😂😂

The boiling of fat of the child for flight comes from extreme perspectives on the making of “flying ointment”, a salve made by European witches often from hog’s fat and nightshades. The flying ointment would be applied to the head of a broom under ritualistic conditions and then used by witches that would “ride” it in flight. Datura is considered one of the most popular nightshades for this salve (and is quite toxic). Most flying ointments these days are practically colognes without a nightshade component, and there are many historical recipes that are traps laid by practitioners gone by, riddled with vicious toxins.

I needed this today! And look at Cody’s hair?!?! I love you guys so much! I pray to have a relationship like this one day! You guys are so beautiful! Love you ✌️ 😘

So kiss me... 😂 shake that hair Sir!!!!

Ahh, I love this adorable charming movie! A beautiful coming of age story about a girl discovering herself and breaking away from her toxic family. 10/10 would recommend.

Yeah, this movie is awesome. wild, and awesome. And the effort put towards making it feel historically accurate is amazing

The She’s All That moment with the hair shakeout! 🙌🏼 His voice bass tho! Phillip WTF?! ASMR 💀 I did a double feature of this & Hereditary last year & it was…an experience 😂 Loved your reaction! It had me cracking up 🖤

The father and the Mother are they the same actors from Game of thrones. Yes they are. the wife was lady the from the vale who tried to kill sansa. and the father was the who blocked arya from seeing her father beheaded 😊😊😊😊😊😊. Oh wait the father also was father brannen in the first Omen movie 😊😊😊😊😊😊

Director of The Lighthouse and The Northman… His attention to language and period detail is second to none…

This film is a brilliant look into the isolation, paranoia, and fear of the frontier days. Eggers also uses many different witch tropes from the days, the rabbit, the goat, the young witch, the old witch, the coven, the bonfires, the talking animals, the succubus, the bloody milk, sudden misfortune, and possession. The beauty of it is, did any of it happen as we saw, or is it all a hallucination because of spoilt rye or just good old madness?

Fun fact, I watched this movie the night that my kids were born. To this day, I have never rewatch this movie or talked about how I felt about it since the birth of my kids was a bigger life event than rewatching this movie.

Bro when i was a teenager i remember finishing watching the baby scene and just being ready to cry out of pure shock, i had never saw a movie take a baby out like that, just profane, and i loved horror movies even back in time, still took me by suprise

The last cpl weeks have been quite entertaining since I found you guys' channel. Even though I've seen like.. every horror movie under the sun, it's still fun to watch y'all react to these movies. Much love! ❤

This has been my favorite film since it was released. Thanks for reacting to it! It's a masterpiece in filmmaking imo.

Ooh I can't believe you guys brought The Witch to the channel! It's on my top 5 favourite horror movies of all time! Robert Eggers is an incredible director and you should check out his other movies as well!

I love this movie. A few years ago I went down a rabbit hole and watched every movie and everything I could find about witches..

Black Philips. Would thou like to live deliously. I have heard that there are t shirt on sale somewhere with quotes from this movie

I like to think this movie was somewhat a portrayal of Dantes Inferno in a way. Where each family member represented a deadly sin. Though it’s a very loose theory. In one way or another this family has been commended to hell. Dad - Pride Son - Lust Mom - Wrath Daughter - Envy Baby/Twins - Gluttony/Greed/Sloth in some capacity not entirely sure.

Seated and watching!🔥 love you guys🤍

I remember watching this in theater with my wife. The ending happened and we were blown away, absolutely loved it. I think we may have been the only ones in that room who did like it, everyone else walking out spoke loud enough to hear that they were either confused, upset that "evil won" or asking what the hell did they just watch. (i don't think they knew it wasn't a typical horror movie, which yeah would definitely taint their experience) Anyway i went out and bought the dvd lol.

Not me being gagged by the length of Cody's hair! 🤣

the score of the film is also the same person who did the first omen and crazy enough that the father in this is the priest in the first omen. love your reaction by the way!

GOD i love this movie so much!! its terrifying, the atmosphere and music, the lighting. ITS PURE ART. Im a witch myself, no i dont worship the devil but this movie SLAPS 😂 i want more witch movies!!!!

Considering the director's commitment to period accuracy I wouldn't be surprised if Ralph Ineson did actually lick dirt. But like...period accurate dirt from a museum or something 😂

loved watching this last night with the full movie with you guys 😭 there were so many scenes I was hoping for a funny edit so it's very satisfying getting to see them here hehe

Someone call the Charmed Ones, someone call the Winchesters, someone call the Slayer. We got a Witch problem.

Ayyyy the VVitch

Kody I love your take! You're such a smart cookie! 😎

This movie is incredible, as were all the actors. It just makes you feel such dread all the way through, like no other movie.

28:05 the wheeze that escaped me. 😂

14:00 When a "hare-raising" rabbit puts someone into full Elmer Fudd mode

This is my favourite movie. So good to see you both cover it!

The director Robert Eggers went on to direct the amazing movies The Lighthouse (2019) with Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe and The Northman (2022), also with Anya Taylor-Joy alongside Alexander Skarsgaard & Nicole Kidman. His next project is a reimaginng of Nosferatu (the first trailer for it drops this weekend).😊

I can't believe it took this long to find you two's channel. I love reaction vids, and a queer couple reacting together is literally the exact thing I've been looking for😊. I adore your reactions. I definitely relate more to your conclusions, opinions and impressions than any other RU-vidr. Thank you for the quality content, y'all are the best❤❤

I'm so happy you watched this! One of my favorite movies. The end just made it chefs kiss!

Robert Egger's film The Northman is also an absolute masterpiece, plus it has hunky vikings in it

To the point of the parents telling their kids not to go in the woods is like me, telling my children. Everywhere around our house is woods, no neighbors. I tell my children to never go in the woods. We live in LA where folklore is filled with witches, vampires, swamp monsters and voodoo. It also doesn't help that in my native nature, you should NEVER whistle in the woods. So needless to say, i CANNOT stress enough to my kids, do not go in the woods unless their father or myself are with them. Numerous things happen in the woods, normal and abnormal and most would rather not find out 😅

So thrilled to see you react to The VVitch! This movie was one of my earlier horror experiences and I only dove deeper into the genre after. And now that you've seen this one, I really hope you watch Eggers's other movies! The Lighthouse (2019) is my favorite

Segio: hey pal are you the devil. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

finally!!!!! 🧡

The discussion at the end is wel worth the watch people , some great takes and info.

I always thought Cody's hair was short, look at those locks xD

You may be interested in The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. She actually confessed a lot of stuff without torture nor any other form of pressure. Her confessions are crazy. And very illuminating

If ur wondering where the twins are, there is an old folklore that says that witches burn children as offerings for the devil

I love the themes of this film, and the way it captures all the best part of true folk horror - the fight between nature's wildness and the inherant magick of the world, vs. man-made evils and technology. it's so so good!

Yes, Harvey Scrimshaw deserved an Oscar for Caleb's last monologue.

Cody you are AMAZING and thank you for informing about the religious story side of things

Everyone in this movie is so good. They speak old english as if thats really how they speak, its so natural.

saw the tweet, came here immediately for this! lol

5:11 🎙️I want my baby back baby back baby back. Give me my baby back please 🎙️

this is one of my favorite movies everrrrrrrr, not just from the horror genre. yalls reaction is prolly my favorite i've seen for this movie. much love! xoxo

This is one of my fav movies!!! So glad to see you guys react! 💜❤😁🫶 ⚠⚠‼(SPOILER): The 2 kids were taken by the Witch and it's actually their bodies burning in the bonfire at the end when all the witches are floating. Children's blood helps them fly in the old lore. That's why we see her flying earlier after what she did with the baby and that's why she rubbed it on her broom and herself.

happy birthday!

Love Robert Eggers movies and his brand of horror. Can't wait for Nosferatu!

“Umm…FBI?! She’s right here! 🫵🏻” had me dying 😂😂😂

I always thought Caleb coughed up the apple bc Thomasin said she wanted one so badly, when they were talking before he was taken. And since it seemed like she was the one the devil wanted, he gave her the apple as a message. A very gross, horrific message lol.

Okay, but. You guys need to check out the man who voiced Black Phillip because 👀

17:00 Woods in this folklore are associated with witches and the devil who have their rituals out there. It stands in contrast to the villages that are land subjugated by the Christian settlers where there is no hiding "sin" because everyone spies on everyone else. You can see this usage in The Crucible, the WGN Salem series, or the Chilling Sabrina comic series that preceded the Netflix show.

Cody, you have a gorgeous head of hair - hope we get to see more of it! ❤

Creepiest sound was when the witch is mashing up the baby 😖 UGH makes me get goosebumps! Love you guys! Awesome reaction!❤

HOW DOES YALL"S HORROR HAND JUMP SCARE ME EVERYTIME EVEN AFTER A YEAR LOL

The story is open to be interpreted either literally by the folklore, or more psychologically, that the things they are seeing express anxieties, especially for children on the edge, or over the edge, of adolescence. The two older children are in the age cohort of the girls in Salem who has fits and accused people of bewitching them. The New Englanders believed that the land in America they were moving into was all Satan's territory, so perhaps the parents' warning about the woods reflects this point of view. 'Familiar spirits' are demons, which can take the form of animals, that the devil sends to accompany witches in their enterprises. The Providence author HP Lovecraft, who was steeped in New England lore, refers to an entity called the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young. I think he might well have been inspired by lore surrounding the Devil appearing in the form of a goat to lead the witches' Sabbat.

You guys will be happy to know that Ralph Ineson is going to be the voice of Galactus in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie.

Your videos always make my day better ☺

Absolutely love this film, Anya said she loves the last shot of Thomasin feeling free. This was her debut as a main character, she was 15 and even suggested to Eggers the scene where she is angry because she wanted Thomasin to display feminine rage.

I honestly feel like the father doesn't get enough credit for being a pretty emotionally available, loving father, especially for the time period. He didn't jump to conclusions about Thomasin until Caleb literally died, and even then he was pleading with Thomasin to convince him she wasn't a witch. He truly loved his family, he just made some bad decisions. Edit: also at this time it would have been completely reasonable to conclude she was a witch, the fact that he resisted it for so long makes him an historical outlier in my book.

I was too nervous to watch this, now I can finally watch it through your reaction lol

Guys, look up the actor who did Black Phillip.. he is SO hot 👀

The Lighthouse. Please, The Lighthouse.

Hey guys, another great reaction.😊 Although THE VVITCH gave me that eerie & slightly uncomfortable feeling when I 1st watched it, I really liked it. I liked it enough to suggest it to a friend, &then watched it w/her for my 2nd viewing.😊 My friend commented on whether/not the family members were dispatched because of committing 1 of the 7 Deadly Sins. The father's sin was Pride which he admits to. The mother's sin was Wrath mostly directed @ Thomasin, but also @ the father. Caleb's was Lust. The twins were guilty of Sloth by not doing their chores & playing all day. Causing Thomasin to pick up the slack. The only innocent ones were the baby & Thomasin. The baby was sacrificed because it was believed that the murder of innocence & if the baby was not yet baptized that it would enhance the witch's power by giving it over to the Devil.. I don't think the baby was baptized because the mother complained that her babe was in Hell. In the end, the witch & the Devil succeeded in corrupting Thomasin's innocence. Having murdered her mother & having no family left, she decided to go the way of the witch in order to live. @ least, that's the way my friend & I saw it. The acting in this movie was stellar. U all watched GAME OF THRONES, right? The actors that played the mother & father are both from GoT. Anyway, I guess that's all I have to say.😊👍

The thing that makes this a great horror movie is that if you remove all the supernatural elements, you still have a compelling tragedy about a family turning against each other. Also, fun fact, if Black Philip seems uncanny to you, it's because he has human-like eyes instead of regular goat eyes.

I didn't know Cody had long hair!!! I’ve never seen it before, my god it suits you so much! ❤️ use it more like this, it's completely wonderful 😻

My parents went to see this movie opening night and will continuously say that they do not like this movie. After it ended, everyone in the theater looked around dumbfounded. My folks said that one guy even said do you think we can get our money back because they all hated this movie. I’ve never watched it myself before this reaction and I was so interested to see what you guys thought about it all.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this, it's one of my favourite films. I know the dialogue puts people off, but the way it adds to the whole time period/setting etc really makes the film. It would be a lesser film without it.

yesss loved this react! I know I'm not a patron or anything but.. I highly recommend The Borderlands/Final Prayer if yall haven't seen it already